Local reports indicate Hoschton, Ga., Mayor Theresa Kenerly said she withdrew the application of Keith Henry, a finalist for city administrator, “because he is black, and the city isn’t ready for this.”
Mayor Theresa Kenerly, and City Councilman Jim Cleveland sit during a city council meeting at the Hoschton Historic Train Depot in Hoschton, Ga., on Monday, May 6, 2019. The mayor of the mostly white north Georgia city is being criticized for comments attributed to her that the community isn't ready to have an African American city administrator.
The mayor disputed the allegations in a statement to the AJC, denying she made any comments that “suggest prejudice.” But the story has reverberated rapidly among Hoschton’s nearly 2000 residents and cast a negative light on the city’s leadership — a tenuous situation exacerbated by longtime city councilman Jim Cleveland, who defended the mayor.
[‘I think it’s a cap gun,’ the police officer said. He opened fire on an eighth-grader moments later.] Jackson County Republican Party Chairwoman Katie Griffin said in a statement that she was “infuriated” by what she read in the AJC report, writing that the comments published within “do not reflect our county or our party.”
Former Hoschton mMayor Erma Denny, conservative commentator Erick Erickson and others have spoken out against the two legislators.
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